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March 04, 2013

Gothic/sf simile of the week

The best Gothic/sf hybrid simile of the week award goes to Market Watch.

Have you ever felt like Ripley — Sigourney Weaver — at the end of Alien? After the monster has wiped out all of her fellow crew members, she decides to kill it by blowing up her spaceship, the Nostromo. She sets the ship’s self-destruct mechanism and races for the escape shuttle — only to find the alien now blocking her way.

The next few minutes are a hair-raising race against time. As Ripley barrels back through the long corridors of the space ship, “Mother,” the voice of the ship’s computer, ominously counts down the time left until everything will go kaboom in a blinding, space-bending explosion.

The stock market feels a little like this.

Yeah.

In an unrelated semiotic vein, "Greedometer indicator" is a fun phrase, too.